free and open-source things are awesome! from keyboard firmware, 3D-printing slicer, image editing, CAD, computer graphics, sound design, game-engine, maps and even a whole computer text-editor

accessing the source-code is important to developers, @ least for some... for the masses the UX is, yet some don't even mind using inferior or equal apps under a locked license with monthly fees. now think how much developer-hours were spend solving similar or equal bugs on desktop environments. or wheel re-inventions of multiple Linux distributions!

tying hands, discussing what's relevant & prioritizing its development and adapting to a new workflow because the customization isn't there yet for the sake of collaboration, is hard (trying it with kids is a challenge)... imagine in a society that people get excited when a company start offering the same thing as the others just because more competition equals better products! when in a 500 year span the amount of work-hours rolled by the GTK or Qt developers/community will surpass one that has everyone developing the same toolkit?

FOSS (& hardware), unfortunately, has less resources than tech giants out there, so we need to limit people using free stuff commercially unless they give back to us and lock down freedom 3 to scientific research to prove what's better or more efficient; so we can update our common and peer-to-peer shared (if community servers aren't a better solution) computer stuff